Partition or plaster structure for buildings.



No. 764,982. PATENTED JULY 12, 1904.

G. BOEGKEL. PARTITION 0R PLASTER STRUCTURE FOR BUILDINGS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 2, 1904.

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PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE BOECKEL, OF MGCKERN, NEAR LEIPZIG, GERMANY.

PARTITION ORPLASTER STRUCTURE FOR BUILDINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 764,982, dated July 12, 1904.

Application filed May 2, 1904. Serial No. 206,052. (No model.)

able others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This lnvent'ion relates to the COIlSlJIllCtlOIlOf plaster partitlons in rooms, decorative vaultings, suspended roofs, as Well as for the incasing of girders, columns, and the like, in which constructions binding-Wires are employed, which are stretched out on the spot where the construction is effected and serve for keeping the plaster-support flat.

According to the similar method already known, in which the plaster-support is surrounded on both sides by stretched-out wire, iron rods fixed vertically one above the other and attached to the floor and the roof areemployed for holding the binding-wires, these rods being furnished with slots or backchamfered incisions, so that the bindingwires can be successively drawn through them, the binding-wires being inserted so that one and the same wire is laid alternately over the back and the front of the plaster-support. This method certainly enables the plaster-support to be laid approximately correct and even; but the operation is a very troublesome one, as the binding-wire must be always drawn from the one side to the other, so that if it be not desired to wind and unwind the whole length of wire necessary for the particularpartition the wire mustbe drawn through at least two adjoining hooks or eyes and bound in afresh in the following hook. On the other hand, the rods do not allow of the wires, which become of constantly-increasing thickness, being firmly and conveniently stretched, as before the binding-wires are bound the rods must be completely fixed to the floor and the roof. The tediousness of the operation and the inadequate tension of the bindingwires may be the reason why the said method has not been adopted to any extent in the attaching the wires, and Fig. 3 is an end view.

In accordance with my invention I proceed by fixing attaching devices, here shown as hooks a or eyes, at certain distances apart in the planes of the partitions, to the roof and the floor, in certain cases also on the adjacently-connected walls, whereupon a strong wire o is bound to one of these hooks and laced through the upper and the lower hooks, so that an exceedingly-rigid wire rib or frame is produced, to which the actual plaster-support (Z, made of plaited ribs, cocoanut fibers, or the like fabric, can be fixed without trouble. After the plaster-support (Z has been laid firmly on the previously-stretched wire rib b a second wire rib is formed, the hooks a employed in the production of the first rib being again employed, and, if necessary, driven-in hooks, as previously mentioned, so that the mortarsupport d isinclosed between two wire ribs 6, and thus held perfectly even. l/Vhen the second rib has been formed, both ribs can be stretched by adjusting the hooks a by driving them in farther. As the mortar-support (Z is laid between two wire ribs formed on the spot, it is held completely rigid and even, though no care may have been taken infixing it temporarily to the first-formed rib.

The binding-wires can be bound so that the wires on the front lie parallel with those on the back, Fig. 2. It is, however, advisable that the wires 6 on the two sides be arranged to cross each other, as shown in Fig. l, as when arranged crosswise the wires can be put at greater distances apart without the mortarsupport lying any less uniformly and rigidly. As simple hooks which can be fixed independently of one another are employed for holding the Wire ribs, the wires can be tightened by driving the hooks in deeper, whereby a tension is assured which would be quite unattainable by pulling the ends of the wires.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In plaster partitions, girder-casings and the like, in which binding-wires are employed to keep the plaster-supporting fabric in position, attaching devices adjustably secured to the parts between which the partition is fixed, a plaster-supportingfabric, and a wire laced from one attaching device to another, and slidably engaging them, the lengths of wire between the attaching devices being disposed on opposite sides of and bearing against the plaster-supporting fabric and being tightened by adjusting the said attaching devices, substantially as described.

2. In plaster partitions, girder-casings and the like, in which binding-wires are employed to keep the plaster-supporting fabric in posi- GEORGE BOECKEL.

Witnesses:

B. H. WARNER, Jr., RUDOLPH FRIoKE. 

